The Kentucky Gazette, 1789-10-03

region will be well mtnaged and what 1s more than this will really do it wc'1- ' o Ileciiion done attention ahdpeN fete ance Some men are undecided in their judgment- vaiiable in their at attention - tention attention aft by tits and liarts and often leave their bufinefs half done It is very dangerous to adm t men of this difpofition into public offices 'where a coincidence of fundry departments is often neceiTary and a failure ot one W'H fomecimes put a full Hop to all the re®' 1 7 A great command of his paiBons A mm who is known to be a (lave to arty favourite paiSon or who is too ilrongly devoted to gaming rhe bot- tle or bia nnftrefs is not thought a ' fe pditbn to trull private bufinefs with efiecially bufinefs of confe quence which tequitesa wacchful di diligence - ligence diligence diferetion and caution much lei's can fuch a man be ti: for a public truft 8 Public offices ihonld be filled drith men of ftea-jy attendance There is great com ia n't of tardy or totally deficient alien Jaiice efpeciallv in the Congef- cjmils aTemiiliev&c by whicn means the puntc oifinet's is much and often very injurio'tly retard retarded - ed retarded 1 hope we do not live in an age fo degd n ate as to render the above cha racleisd:ffiult tube found The im importance - portance importance 01 them mull be obvious 10 evey perfon concerned in clciling or appointing public uliicets and 1 hope Obfervations on the bones commonfy fuppofed to be elephants' bones which have been found near the river Ohfo In America by William Hunter M D F R S

rial olephmi'g ituk wot thot it vs more twilled or had more of the fpirat curve than any of the tlepkantf teeth which 1 had fern Some time after thit Dr Franklin received a large hey of the fame fort of bonei from the Ohio -by way of Philo Philo-' - ' Philo-' delphia PTe Informed me of thit and told me illeewift that another large hex tf thofe henet wot fent te the Earl tf Shel Shelburne - burne Shelburne t waited upon Dr FranklirT and found the bonet te be tvaBly fuck at t hndfeen: and wot therefore confirmed in my former opinion h Then I waited upon Lord Shelburne and w at permittid te examine the bones which he had received Befidet the tuibtend grinder t whch woke all fuch at I had fern and flill ferved te confirm me in my opinion there Wat the half of the lower jiw of the animal with one Inrgt grinder Bill fired in it Thii jo w bane wot ft different from that of an elephant both in form and in fiie and eerrefponded ft etaBly with the ether bon tt and with my furpofition that X wax nsv fully convinced that the Jup Jup-ptftd - ptftd Jup-ptftd 'American elephant wax an animal tf another fieciti a pl'eud elephant or an'mal ineognitum which naturalifts Vetrt unacquainted with I imagined farther that thit animal ibcogniiun